Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing has vowed to press on with its £32bn takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange, even as the UK group flatly rejected the unsolicited approach. In a dismissive statement on Friday morning, the LSE cited concerns abo...

Buckingham Palace has said The Crown does not have a royal seal of approval, insisting it is “a fictionalised interpretation of historical events”. In a rare public intervention, the Queen’s communications secretary sent a letter to the Guardian di...

Chuka Umunna has claimed he suffered from a “politically abusive relationship” with the Labour party and predicted that his new party — the Liberal Democrats — was on course to record its best ever general election result. Mr Umunna abandoned Labou...

White flurries of snow fell from a mild autumn sky in Tokyo on Friday – not the latest example of extreme global weather, but part of a heat-busting experiment masterminded by Olympics officials. A snow machine was used to create fake white flurrie...

The pound has risen to its highest level against the dollar since July, breaking through the $1.24 mark as fears recede that the UK is on the brink of crashing out of the EU without a deal. Sterling shot up 1.1 per cent against the dollar on Friday...

Former US vice-president Joe Biden came under attack from several Democratic presidential contenders on Thursday as the party held its third debate in the race to select a challenger to Donald Trump in 2020. On issues ranging from healthcare and im...

Top story: Speaker swings behind written constitution Good morning briefers. I’m Martin Farrer and these are the top stories to help you over the line and into the weekend. John Bercow has promised that he will be prepared to rip up the parliamenta...

The IMF is a long way from making a decision over the disbursement of the latest $5.4bn tranche of its bailout package for Argentina due this month, which could even be delayed beyond presidential elections in October, people familiar with the coun...

Labour incensed the audience, panelists and Fiona Bruce following their refusal to accept Boris Johnson’s challenge of a general election. Despite being asked on numerous occasions for their position on a variety of topics, Labour, and Conser...

The mother of a ‘miracle’ triplet undergoing treatment for an aggressive brain cancer told how her son bumping his head in a soft play area may have saved his life.
Karen and Andy Stirrat, from Clydebank, had always longed to have...